| Resolution Number: | 1979-A002 | |
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| Title: | Add Canon III.20 [Of Assistant Bishops] | |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Amended | |
| Final Text: | ||
Resolved, That following present Canon III.19 entitled "Of Duties of Missionary Bishops" there shall be a new Canon to be designated "Of Assistant Bishops" to be numbered Canon III.20 and to read as is hereinafter set forth with present Canon III.20 thru III.29 to be renumbered to be respectively, Canons III.21 through III.30.
TITLE III
CANON 20.
Of Assistant Bishops
Sec. 1. Whenever any Diocese shall, in the opinion of its Bishop, require additional episcopal services, the said Bishop may, with the consent of the Standing Committee of the Diocese, in lieu of requesting the election of a Coadjutor or Suffragan Bishop, ask the Diocesan Convention to approve the creation of the position of Assistant Bishop, and to authorize the Bishop to appoint a Bishop for such position, with the consent of the Standing Committee of the Diocese, and under such conditions as the Bishop may determine.
Sec. 2. Such Assistant Bishop may be appointed from among the following:
(a). Bishops now exercising jurisdiction, or serving as Suffragan Bishop, who under the Constitution and Canons, and subject to their provisions, would be eligible for election in that Diocese; Provided, That before accepting any such appointment a Bishop exercising jurisdiction as the Ordinary or as the Bishop Coadjutor shall resign that jurisdiction, or the right of succession, as the case may be:
(b). Bishops who, having previously resigned their former responsibilities, are qualified to perform episcopal acts in this Church; and
(c).Bishops of a Church in communion with this Church, in good standing, who have resigned their former responsibilities, their appointment to the position of Assistant Bishop being subject to the approval of competent authority within that Church.
Sec. 3. An Assistant Bishop so appointed shall serve at the discretion of and be under the control and direction of the Bishop having jurisdiction.
Sec. 4. No person may serve as an Assistant Bishop beyond the termination of the jurisdiction of the appointing Bishop or after attaining the age of 72 years.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 1979 (New York: General Convention, 1980), p. C-26. |
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